[babyjanedough]

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

[isuckattechnology]

Audio:

Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!

Brennan, as a young boy: It's Pride, bitch!

[urkuri]

[urkuri]

party rock is in the hause tonite

[urkuri]

[urkuri]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[stupidlittlespirit]

This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.

And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.

He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.

Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.

People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.

That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!

You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.

Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.

Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.

[he-needs-enrichment]

Holy shit yes. I also saw the same video and it had a very heavy impact on me.

[talvenhenki]

Esteettömyys NYT!

Tässä on kansalaisaloite, joka vaatii esteettömyyden laiminlyönnin muuttamista laittomaksi. Oon jo omalta osaltani allekirjottanu tämän, mutta tää aloite hyödyttää niin monia, että toivon tän saavan tarvittavan määrän allekirjoituksia.

Kuka tahansa meistä voi jossain kohtaa elämäänsä tarvita esteettömiä palveluita joko osittain tai kokonaisvaltaisesti. Sairaus tai onnettomuus voi aiheuttaa kenelle tahansa esteettömyyden tarpeen. Ja vaikka esteettömyyden tarve ei kosketa just sua, se voi koskettaa sun läheisiä tai ystäviä. Mua se ei tällä hetkellä kosketa, mutta toivon, että me saatais meidän maasta kaikkien tarpeita huomioiva paikka.

[kassaneiti]

allekirjoititko

joo, jo aiemmin

nyt allekirjoitin

Voting ended onMay 31

[kinuskikakku]

Allekirjoitin nyt ja mietin kyl et tekeekö tää esim Jyväskylän Sairaala Novasta laittoman kun ei ole näkövammaisten opasteviivoja yms., tosin oon kivuliaan tietoinen et joidenkin mielestä esteettömyys ei sisällä moniakaan näkövammaista koskevia seikkoja ja valtion hallintoelimissä päättäjät voivat aina halutessaan supistaa esteettömyyden määritelmää entisestään et paikat läpäisee vaatimukset paljon helpommin.

Mut toivossa on hyvä elää, uskoon on hyvä tulla ja rakkautta sopii etsiä.

[baeddel]

if we think of consciousness as a kind of state-machine, alcoholism and drug use are typically understood as changing states, while sobriety is understood as maintaining a fixed state. We tend to talk about drugs as giving us an ‘altered state of consciousness’ - altered from the fixed sober consciousness. But we know, really, that there isn’t a single sober conscious state, but that our conscious states change, depending on the situations we’re in. As a non-drinker and non-drug user, I enter many different mental states throughout the day; I may be more or less alert, I may be intensely focused or have difficulty concentrating, etc.

In this way, while we often think of alcoholism and drug dependence as a loss of control, surrendering ones state to the effects of this or that intoxicant, it could be analysed as a way of taking control. The teetotaller is the one who surrenders control of their states to their enviornment, while the addict consciously influences their state. Many alcoholics do consider their habitual drinking a kind of stability, and it is. I might know that tonight I will be delerious, tomorrow I will be hungover, and I will gradually recover during the day until I get drunk again, etc. Many touring musicians would alternate taking downers during the day and stimulants before shows, and many students take stimulants to combat their natural exhaustion. The addict induces certain states to gain coherence, to control their conscious relationship to their enviornment. When we think about homeless alcoholics who are drunk all day, we might think of it as a way of making a claim to some kind of property - their consciousness, or their body - when all other property has been taken from them. In many situations of instability, few people remain sober, while in situations of stability, many do.

[tlirsgender]

We need to do something about straight women's misery in their hetero relationships they're largely just resigned to living in I'm so serious. Can we try women's lib again can we liberate the women

[spankerella]

Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

[cmonbabydothelocomotion]

I miss when iwtv had a main cast that were majority poc and black writers in the writers room

[wanderrealms]

Analyysi: Hyvinvointialueet rikkovat johdonmukaisesti lakia – säästöillä ei pitäisi saada kaikkea anteeksi

Näyttää siltä, etteivät hyvinvointialueet pysty noudattamaan lakia säästöjen takia. Herää kysymys, miksi se sallitaan, kirjoittaa toimittaja

"Pohjois-Pohjanmaan hyvinvointialue Pohde on käynyt oikeustaistelua kehitysvammaisten lasten perheitä vastaan – ja hävinnyt valtaosan tapauksista.

Tapaukset nostavat esiin kysymyksen siitä, pystyvätkö hyvinvointialueet noudattamaan lakia säästöpaineissaan.

Lyhykäisyydessään kyse on siitä, että Pohde on vienyt perheitä oikeuteen, koska hyvinvointialueen mielestä sen ei tarvitse järjestää maksutonta aamu- ja iltapäivähoitoa vammaisille lapsille.

Nyt oikeus on todennut, että suurimmassa osassa tapauksia tarvitsi"

Toinen nosto:

"Kumpuvuoren mukaan palvelujen karsiminen on usein toimiva taktiikka, sillä suurin osa ei osaa tai jaksa valittaa kielteisestä päätöksestä. Näin näyttää käyneen myös Pohteen alueella."

[books-are-portals]

Osa ongelmaa on myös se, ettei kaikki ihmiset tiedä mistä ja miten apua näissä tilanteissa voi saada, varsinkin jos tulot on pienet.

Siispä vinkkinä, mikäli kenellekään osuu kohdalle mikä vaan tilanne, jossa tarvitsee oikeudellista apua tai neuvontaa mutta oma osaaminen, jaksaminen ja varallisuus iskee kapuloita rattaisiin, suosittelen ottamaan yhteyttä lähimpään Oikeusaputoimistoon eli oikeuspalveluviraston toimipisteeseen. Oikeusavun myöntämiseen vaikuttaa henkilön tulot ja menot ja sitä voidaan myöntää niiden perusteella maksutta tai omavastuulla.

Oheisesta linkistä voi käydä kurkkimassa tarkemmin.

Oikeuspalveluvirastosta saat oikeusapua, neuvoja yleiseen edunvalvontaan sekä talous- ja velka-asioihin.

[meirmakesstuff]

A guy at the gym just looked around, realized he was lifting the same weight as a "girl" in a wheelchair, pushed his weight up two notches, screamed once, and left.

[meirmakesstuff]

Like,

[meirmakesstuff]

This could have been avoided by keeping your eyes on your own workout,

This could have been avoided by realizing not all disabilities make people weaker--in fact, the opposite,

This could have been avoided by just being normal about things, man, I don't know what to tell you

[meirmakesstuff]

My wife (they/them) is the wheelchair user in this scenario. I was on standby because sometimes they lift so much weight they start to tip over.

[heartpdfs]

[storyweavingspider]

The average white is racist.

By which I actually DON’T mean that the average white would call me a nigger to my face outside the lofty confines of a reasonably anonymous account or an anon ask in my inbox. They find themselves too vulnerable and me far too scary for that in most situations. And after all, they’re a GOOD person, who has evolved past racism! In fact, I bet they’re fixing their mouths to say that I’m ACTUALLY racist towards whites, no matter how well spoken I may be (and then to slap on anon to call me a spearchucker, pedophile, and whatever else they can reach for to make themselves feel better).

No, the average white finds themselves beyond such base defoulments of their mouths such as “the n word”, such things that leave them open to the potential of losing jobs, social standing, a few teeth if they get punched out, and more (if caught in 4k, anyway). And yet,

The average white is racist.

The average white will avert their eyes and walk faster as cops harass us, the average white gets uncomfortable when we don’t know our place, the average white would’ve voted for Obama a third time, the average white ignores resumes with “ethnic” names, the average white gets the same jobs with a high school degree as a Black person does with a master’s, the average white just thinks that Black woman was being a bit aggressive, the average white person just thought that group of Black kids were thugs scoping out their neighborhood, the average white votes against ending slavery in California, the average white is very concerned about the Black jogger caught on camera looking around an open construction site, the average white actually votes overwhelmingly Republican, the average white says they aren’t racist because they haven’t called anyone a nigger since they were 12, the average white just thinks that Black trans woman dressed to go out might’ve been a prostitute soliciting in their neighborhood, the average white trans person just thinks that Black trans woman might be a danger to her siblings, the average white doesn’t know why only one Black person attended this 30 person meeting in a 50% Black city, the average white is attending a very very sad vigil for us while making sure to intimidate the Black girl they hate who showed up, the average white is very offended that you brought up Emmett Till because they’re an antiracist from Mississippi, the average white isnt sure about the details but reblogged the third harassment campaign this week like their grandmama took picnics at lynchings, the average white thinks the police serve a needed function in society beyond “slave catcher”, the average white thinks they’re one of the GOOD ones who might’ve done a bad thing here and there, the average white thinks they don’t benefit from the structures of white supremacy that have subsumed the world and are choking the life out of everyone else,

The average white is REAL fucking racist and too terrified of what that means for them to do jack shit about it. Too scared of the ostracization, the potential loss of even a fraction of privilege, the fear of experiencing even a modicum of what the rest of us go through if they betray white solidarity, white supremacy.

The “teachable moment” is to get off your ass and start doing shit. If you can’t be the new John Brown, fucking copwatch, read abolitionist/womanist/transfeminist literature and figure out how to apply it to STOP JOINING FUCKING DIGITAL LYNCH MOBS YOU FREAKS, do you have any idea how much WE could do if we didn’t have to deal with you LITERALLY CONSTANTLY doxxing us, harassing us, trying to SWAT us, driving us to literal insanity? Fuck, sending a racialized disabled and/or trans person other than me $10-$20 to eat a real meal or get meds is more praxis than like 90% of what y’all do.

And no most of y’all ain’t any lower on the list than white benefit, don’t play now.

Whatever it is, whatever is within your realistic abilities, fucking get doing it or at bare minimum get your averagely racist ass out of our way so we can. Do you even have more than one or two racialized people irl OR online that would call YOU their friend? Work on being maybe decent enough to achieve that as a baseline goal, fuck.

[mxjackparker]

Radfem Deprogramming online Workshop, May 17th at 6pm BST and another at 9pm BST! (Check when those are in your timezone.)

We'll be going over radical feminist rhetoric, how sincere rage over patriarchy is twisted to get people to target trans people and sex workers, and how you can combat bioessentialist and TERF and SWERF ideas infiltrating your own communities.

Run by a trans sex worker, Jack Parker, who has been transitioning for roughly 5 years and selling sex for 10.

Radfem Deprogramming Workshop Tickets - - OutSavvy

6PM (UK time, BST) until 8pm. Join from any time-zone, workshop will be held over Zoom. Want to know more about where radical feminist ideas